Wondering how long you’re going to live, and how it will all end? Here’s what the numbers say – according to the experts. The average life expectancy in North America right now is 78 years. That’s going up, however. By 2030, which sounds like way in the future, but is just fourteen years from now, …
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Ever wonder if you’re a psychopath? Well, now there’s a test for that. OK, there’s probably always been a test for that. But this is a new one. According to the Indy100, Daniel Boduszek of the University of Huddersfield devised the Psychopathic Personality Trait Scale (PPTS) by conducting research on inmates in a Polish high …
If you dropped all our belongings or needed to borrow a phone, who do you think would be more likely to help you out? People coming out of a Prada store or people coming out of, say, H&M? Alas, all those clichés about the ungenerous and selfish rich seem to have been proven true – …
Do you or a loved one have any upcoming surgeries? See if you can schedule it in the morning. Patients who go under the knife after hours are more than twice as likely to die within thirty days of the operation. Those are the findings of a new five-year study from the McGill University Health …
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Like binge-watching your favourite shows online? It could be deadly. A new study has found that the long periods of inactivity associate with viewing episode after episode of a TV show raises the risk of death from a fatal blood clot in the lungs. The lung clot, officially known as a pulmonary embolism, usually starts …
I’ve been to Istanbul a couple of times. One of my best friends got married there and another got engaged (to my sister) in Taksim Square (to a band playing Brown Eyed Girl on tram car he hired for the event). We never felt unsafe. The events of recent days with a questionable coup attempt …
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The news came out yesterday that the wildfires in Alberta that devastated the town of Fort McMurray earlier this year was Canada’s worst natural disaster ever. Well, in terms of costs anyway. The announcement came from the insurance industry, estimating losses to be over 3.5 billion Canadian dollars. The fires forced nearly 90,000 people to …
Woohoo! We’re number 2! Canadian women have the second biggest boobs in the world. This is according to a study in which researchers analyzed which nations have the women with the largest and smallest breasts. According to the Telegraph, they looked at data from nearly 400,000 women born in 108 countries, comparing the mean volume and …
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Do you have a wish-list of world heritage sites to visit in your lifetime? Stop procrastinating. A new report says that many of the most renowned spots around the world are going to disappear shockingly soon. One cold misty October morning, my brother and I and a few friends from college boarded the ferry at …
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The great thing about taking selfies is that you can perfect your pose, facial expression, and timing to take the perfect picture of yourself. That way, you can show the world the most attractive version of yourself. Except not really. What you see is not what the rest of the world sees. A new study …
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